Re: Suggestions for participating institutions?

[Trevor Daniels]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:52 AM


> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:52 AM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I met a former colleague in the bus to Chemnitz, and he is at least
>> knowledgeable about EU research programmes.  Do people here have ideas
>> about possible institutions who could be made to participate?  I think
> 
> Take in mind that EU research programmes come with an incredible
> amount of burocracy and require both academic and industry partners,
> the more the merrier. The projects that get funded are buzzword
> compliant, but often nobody knows what they set out to do, except
> divert EU money into the partnering institutions. Have a look at

Indeed.  When I was involved in bidding for EU research funding in
what now seems to be a previous life the process involved many meetings
with potential and later actual partners, who have to come from, I believe
at least 3 separate countries, plus presentations in Brussels, all involving
lots of international travel.  And at the end of that expense of time, effort
and money we were unsuccessful.  This is not like bidding for an Arts
grant.

Trevor